β Scribed by Steve Rasnic Tem
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The authorβs second novel, The Book of Days consists of a short story told each day by a man trying to talk himself back to sanity. A kind of literary sampler quilt, these daily inventions emulate the styles of everything from traditional ghost stories to the works of OβHenry and James Whitcomb Riley, from westerns to fifties science fiction to boyβs own adventure stories. As a sequence illustrating the narratorβs deep internal struggle, these dark stories take on additional weight, making each one a sharp shock that builds to an electrifying whole.
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